Coach black friday

Katie Burrows finalized her first University of Tennessee at Chattanooga coaching staff Friday, and it looks very similar to last season's group with a couple of responsibility changes. The biggest difference is that Burrows has moved up from an assistant's position to head coach. Debbie Black, a former head coach at Eastern Illinois, has moved from director of operations to assistant coach, joining holdovers Jon Goldberg and Brittany Johnson and director of student-athlete development Ka'Vonne Towns. The lone addition is former Mocs standout Aryanna Gilbert, who will be the program's student assistant while finishing her final year of graduate school. Gilbert is coming off an All-Southern Conference senior season in which she averaged 12.6 points, 6.4 rebounds and 2.7 assists per game in 2017-18. "This staff is amazing," Burrows said in a news release. "I am thrilled that I get to continue to work alongside such great coaches, who are even better people. We work well together and … [Read more...] about New UTC women’s basketball head coach Katie Burrows finalizes ‘amazing’ staff

The Gophers and Nebraska are scheduled to play each other in the regular-season finale in 2020 and 2021, and both games are penciled in for Saturdays. Nebraska athletic director Bill Moos earlier this week said those games will be moved to Black Friday – the day after Thanksgiving. Mark Coyle, the Gophers’ AD, said any change would have to go through the Big Ten office but that he’s supportive of a move. “We’d have those conversations with the Big Ten Conference. We’d be open to those conversations,’’ Coyle said Wednesday at the Gopher Road Trip stop at Cragun’s Resort in Brainerd. “… We wouldn’t be opposed to that.’’ The Gophers are scheduled to play Nebraska in Lincoln on Nov. 28, 2020, and play host to the Cornhuskers on Nov. 27, 2021. Nebraska’s long-term goal is to get Iowa back on the schedule on Black Friday, and Moos said that will happen beginning in 2022. The Cornhuskers and … [Read more...] about Gophers AD Mark Coyle open to playing Nebraska on Black Friday in 2020 and 2021

When Nebraska Athletic Director Bill Moos was hired in October 2017, one of the first messes he tried to clean up was the Black Friday debacle. That seems to be coming to a close. Moos, talking on the Husker Sports Network on Monday evening, said the Nebraska vs. Iowa matchup on the day after Thanksgiving is going to return and will be scheduled for "long after" he is gone. "When I got here there were a couple things that I went right, straight to and that was Black Friday and to secure the rivalry with Iowa," Moos said. "That will be scheduled long after I’m gone. And I mean, on the face of the Earth."The previous athletic director, Shawn Eichorst, was fired soon after Nebraska's loss to Northern Illinois in September 2017, which followed a week full of controversy about the Black Friday game. Eichorst and the athletic department announced Nebraska would no longer play on the day after Thanksgiving and would finish its seasons in 2020 and 2021 against … [Read more...] about Nebraska-Iowa game on Black Friday will return for good after 2021, Bill Moos says

LINCOLN — Nebraska and Iowa are working on renewing their Black Friday game starting in 2022, NU Athletic Director Bill Moos told The World-Herald on Saturday night.In a text, Moos stopped short of confirming a Land of 10 report that the return of the Black Friday game — after it takes a break in 2020 and 2021 — is a done deal. Iowa coach Kirk Ferentz broke the news at a youth camp Saturday.“It sounds like we’re going to rekindle it,” Ferentz told Land of 10. He indicated the renewal may permanently pit the Huskers and Hawkeyes against each other on the day after Thanksgiving. Nebraska and Iowa still play each other on Black Friday in 2018 and 2019. But they won’t in 2020 or 2021, and the lion’s share of the blame for that has repeatedly fallen on the shoulders of former NU Athletic Director Shawn Eichorst and former Husker coach Mike Riley.Although the Big Ten said at the time there was no “hidden reason” for pairing … [Read more...] about Huskers, Hawkeyes striving to renew Black Friday football tradition by 2022

COUNCIL BLUFFS — Iowa play-by-play announcer Gary Dolphin got the party started with jabs at Nebraska almost immediately.“Always good to come to Nebraska,” Dolphin at the Mid-America Center Tuesday night. “Or I should say the Omaha area, after we’ve kicked their butt a couple times.”Dolphin was in Council Bluffs with Iowa coach Kirk Ferentz and a few other Hawkeye coaches to speak to a contingent of Hawkeye fans. The group of coaches, including Ferentz and basketball coach Fran McCaffery, are on a tour around the state in March and April. Dolphin opened up the program and within a few minutes was talking about Nebraska’s newly hired coach, Scott Frost.“I hear everyone is fired up about Scott Frost coming here, seems like a terrific guy,” Dolphin said. “But there’s a new Nebraska wave. It’s like this. Five fingers, and now turn your thumb in. That’s the new Nebraska wave, because four of the last five years … [Read more...] about Jokes made at Huskers’ expense at I-Club event featuring Hawkeye coaches